Anonymous wrote:

whether you call it algebra or not, my second grader is doing things in math that I never did in second grade.

Not to be snarky but did you grow up in Appalachia? This stuff is very, very easy. I doubt that my children will become scientists or math experts when they grow up so it matters less to us but it is pretty bad.

I've volunteered in the classrooms and the kids are bored with this stuff. Unless its a game that they can keep playing, most kids finish their work without any real effort and are just bored. Some go back to writing work they didn't finish, some do a few extra "enrichment problems" that are not different, and some just do nothing.

My son had never taken more than 5 minutes to finish his math homework all year. His perspective on math is that its easy and boring. I would like to see the school give them something that warrants at least 30 seconds of thought or gets them to actually think about how they can use these strategies or solve a problem. MCPS really messed up on math.